The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1944, Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1944 HEATRE Last Times Today WARNER BAXTER P “CRIME DOCTOR" SECOND FEATURE DENNIS 0'KEEFE—JEAN BROOKS GRS Y “LEOPARD MAN" Starting SUNDAY FEATURE STAR' 4:05 6:10 UPROARIOUS COMEDY! RIP-ROARIOUS ACTION! 8:15 10:20 | vBAINTER - sesmus OWEN RAY COLLINS - KEYE LUKE MARILYN MAXWELL WILLIAM LUNDIGAN LATEST NEWS | TRAVEL PREVUE TONIGHT—12:30 A. M. THE CAPITOL HAS THE BIG PICTURES! " LARGE LIST 1S OUTBOUND An incoming ship, from Seattle, | Workman, E. L. Muir, Bob Kibnik, and H. F. Holder, NORMANDY FILM STARTS AT CAPITOL SUNDAY Filmed in cooperation with the United States Marine Corps, \M-G-M’s “Salute to the Marines” 'stars ‘Wallace Beery in a two-fist- ed, action-packed wartime story "that is as inspiring as Old Glory |itself. The photoplay begins Sun- /day at the Capitol Theatre, and} (will be there three days. | Done up in Technicolor, the pic- Iture is not only a tribute to Wal- |lace Beery’s thirtieth year in mo-| tion -pictures, but also a salute to| |the fighting Marines, the “fight-| |in‘est men” in the service. | Beery, in a ‘“diamond-in-the rough” role that has made "him | famous, portrays a bellowing, tough-: as-they-come leatherneck sergeant, | veteran | Retired from the corps, he later | iwmm BEERY THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA PUBLICITY IcopANDO FLM i after of 30 years in uniform.| |organizes a Filipino “army” to fight the ruthless Jap hordes invading |the Philippines. ! Teamed with Beery for the first| time is personable Fay Bainter, re-| | | | sually just as certain that an- | other Fighting Frenchman has pav- | planned, and dangerous under- cover work carried out in order for Py i ist mecca on the North American fo O at the 30th Century| continent—a campaign that would | Featuring > leads to one of st de : | This is the opinion. expressed by ads to one of the most devastating | W. Morrison, Pyesident of the Whenever the bombers wing their | ,way over the Channel towards the | French Coast, the odds are that they | G ‘ a specific objective. And | G|am0rlllng Alaska as | for still another blow at Nazi dom- | ination of hig native land NO I TOUI’iS' Me((a { That these raids have to be care- . | full reaching in purpose — that would |, . new ph‘;\n'(' “Tonight We glamorize Alaska as the No. 1 tour- g i oo e A | A exploit the tremendous natural re- Sutt Ammbol_la 0 J(‘,h"] . : utton in the top roles, the film sources of the Territory—and which cent around John Sutton's one- would establish an impregnable Wall | o\ corinando expedition that | of economic security for all time. e ¢ bombings ever brought to the screen. | Morrison-Knudsen Company, Inc., S{” bR e, s * ? A > said to have a tenseness and dram- in an interview with a reporter of atic appeal equalled o At The Empire. , ¥ o “Alaska,” stated the famed con- | Vivacious Annabella has the im- | portant role of a headstrong French | membered for her stirring perform- ! struction engineer, “must become ance in “The War Against Mrs.|more and more publicity conscious \Hadley.” As his peace-loving wife, each day. A publicity campaign, |Miss Bainter persuades Beery to properly handled, he said, would leave the service he loves for do- | bring about results in the volume mestic life of tourist trade, that wauld equal if “Salute to the Marines” is a vivid | not overshadow, anything they have and warm picturization of leather-|to offer in Southern California. i | w. Willard, Angol Mendez, Charles | this morning brought to Juneau the " FRONT IS following: Tom Armstrong, Irving Bersak, H. E. Burt, William Cashen, Mr QUIET NOW William Cashen, H. G. Francis, M) Lucille Francis, Edwin L. Hanson, Mrs. M. J. Gentner, Glenn Green, Mrs. L. Green, Lottie M. Gritman, Gertrude Jewell, Audie Lohr, Max J. Rogers, Mrs. Evelyn Rogers.and infant, Mrs. Bes- sie Smith, and John Soufoulis. From Ketchikan came Mr. Mrs. Benson, Bruce Bower, Mr. and Mrs. Ben Bellamy, Thomas Jones, Eric Larson, and N. Sousourdie. Boarding the vessel here were Mrs. F. Reynoldson and infant, Mrs, L. Reynoldson, Mrs. Everson, Jack D. Conright, Josephine Staples, J. C. Lewis, Fred Orme, Ruth Leland, . John Laughlin, { and | Operalionsieiorted Held Up by Rain and Sog- gy Batlefields SUPREME HEADQUARTERS OF THE ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY | FORCES, July 22.—Today’s com- | munique said “There is nothing to report.” | Rain and soggy battlefields are holding up operations in Normandy | and German tank attacks are bog- ] as follows: Industrials, 145.58; rails, Harry Delane, O. S. Sullivan, Cpl. |ged down. ¢ Bud Nance, Helen Gould, Mrs. Mag- el ity nus Hansen, P. H, Walker, Francis | Hawaii officially came under the Munter, Bill Lott, Herman Eck- |jurisdiction of the United States in strom, Mrs. Gilbert Hamilton, A.|1898. FOR SALE ONE (NEW) Hot Point ELECTRIC RANGE [ ) Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Company JUNEAU DOUGLAS Phone No. 616 Phone No. 18 {necks in the Philippines. Marine |training and valor in battle are |carefully pictured in the inspiring | story. ———-——.— 'PAVING BID LET . BYCITY COUNCIL With a bid of $724.40, the Lemon Creek Sand and Gravel Company was awarded the contract for the paving of West First Street between Franklin Street and Gastineau Ave- nue, by members of the Juneau City Council which met last night at the Council’s chambers. The meeting was presided over by Mayor A. B. Hayes. Pavement agreement notices are now being mailed to property own- ers on Second Street for their ap- proval or disapproval of paving one block on Second Street. The matter will be taken up at the next meeting | of the Council, A leter from D. V. Such, Presi- dent of the Juneau Marine Supply Company, was read to Council mem- bers, in which the firm requests the city to sell two lots at the Small Boat Harbor. The matter was re- ferred to the Committee on City Properties. General repair work at the Small Boat Harbor which included the erection of creosoted piling to re- | place deteriorated pilings was dis- cussed. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 22. — Closing quotation wf " Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 6%, American Can 90%, American Tel. and Tel. 162%, Beech Aircraft 9%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Curtis: Wright 5%, DuPon common 1564, International Harvester 5%, Ken- necott 32, American American Avia- | tion 8%, New York Central 19%, | Northern Pacific 16%, Standard Oil of California 37%, United States Steel 57%, Pound $4.04. Dow, Jones averages today are | 40.92; utilities, 23.33. - e TOM YOUNG FINED ‘Tom Young was fined $50 in the U. 8. Commissioner’s Court on a charge of reckless driving. Baranof Beauty Salon WHERE SATISFACTION and SERVICE are SYNONYMOUS Complete Summer BEAUTY CARE A full staff of experienced operators to satisfy your every ‘wish in hair styling. L] SHOP HOURS 9A.M.TOSP. M. OPEN EVENINGS BY APPOINTMENT PHONE 538 Broiled Steak and Fried Chicken SERVED ANY TIME | That section of the coutnry is “old stuff” to the majority of tourists |in the States today. They want | something new—and that something |new is Alaska, Now is the time for | Alaska financial interests to lay the {groundwork for economic expansion | for the postwar period. | Put Alaska Over | | There is more money today thgn ever before and those who have it jmust be willing to gamble. The Alcan Highway must be maintained at all costs and not permitted to go | back to grass. Hotels must be built, | |airports constructed and expanded, |and the various steamship com- | | panies operating to these shores should inaugurate luxury liners to bring tourists to this land of in- { comparable splendor. What the rMatson people accomplished in the way of “putting over” Honolulu and [the Hawaiian Islands ,the same re- sults could be experienced here with the cooperation of the steamship | companies plying their trade to this Territory. i Sufficient interest in Alaska | should be inoculated into the arter- | 'ies of the major motion picture | companies which would inevitably |bring about the staging of produc- | tions here, which would in the final |analysis greatly aid in publicizing the Territory. Country Has Merit | Alaska’s surface, pointed out Mr. Morrison, has been “hardly scratch- |ed” and the greater portion of it has been undeveloped. He stated | that in the event that private capi- | tal were unable to raise sufficient { funds to exploit these resources, the financing of such projects should be |presented to the Federal Govern- | ment. | “Alaska’s approach,” declared Mr. | | Morrison, “is to block out its project |and develop sufficient inofrmation concerning it to indicate conclusive- ly that it has merit.” | Mr. Morrison is accompanied by | { his wife, C R Shinn, Vice-President in charge of operations in Seattle, Canada and Alaska, and Robert Gebo, manager of Alaska opera- tions, with offices at Anchorage. The party is making an inspection | trip of the company's operations in Alaska | Mr. Morrison concluded the inter- view with the remark: “Our com- | pany intends to stay in the Territory ; and to develop a ‘Greater Alaska.’ 1 "(RY-BABY" GIRLS ARE GIVEN PANNING BOULDER, Colo.— The National | Association of College Women in| Physical Education has decided | something must be done to correct what they call the “cry-baby atti- | tude” of modern girls. Instead of fighting problems through, the adolescent girl ofl.cnj is moody. and too frequently resorts | to tears, the educators said. They | blamed the one-child family, lack | of home discipline and the small| apartment life in larger cities as causes of the situation. | peasant girl who at first (‘lian'\lsls! the Commando, but later falls in love with him and risks her life to | help in his perilous task. Lee J.| Cobb enacts the role of an aged | French fdtmer who leads the patri- | otic villagers; Beulah Bondi is seen | as his wife and Blanche Yurka plays the part of a widow with three daughters who gamble their all to aid in the cause of free France. SPY - CHASER HAS WARNING ON POSTWAR SANTIAGO, Chile, July man who made Chile's “Depart- ment 50" one of the world’s famous anti-espionage organizations, say democracies had better be on guar a resurgence of the German zeal for conguest He is Hernan Barros Bianchi, 33, who personally led his agents in innumerable raids to break up sensational Nazi espionage organiza- tion. Department 50's work put Chile in the forefront in activities against espionage. Tt helped gather some of the evidence in Chile that put German spy Luning before a firing squad in Havana, Cuba. Its detection of the espionage ring helped to turn | Chilean public sentiment from neu- trality to a fortright anti-Nazi pol- icy, leading later to a breaking in diplomatic relations with the Axis. The agency got its name because its first telephone number was ex- tension 50 on the investigation de- partment, switchboard. - e New Navy Aide = 4 RALPH A. BARD of Chicago has been named by President Roosevelt to fill the vacancy left by James V. Forrestal when the latter was made Secretary of the Navy. The Presi- dent followed the recommendation of Mr, Forrestal in appointing Bard to his new post. (International) Grizzly bears can climb trees only when they are cubs. The | when this war is over lest their hpleGION OF MER" LAST TIME PAGE THREE “ACTION IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC” STARTING TONIGHT IO N TURY TOPS IN SHORTS ' GIVEN BRIG. GEN. . FRANK WHITTAKER HEADQUARTERS, ALASKAN | DEPARTMENT—Award of the Le- { gion of Merit to Brig. Gen. Frank | L. Whittaker of San Francisco, | calif., Deputy Commander of the Alaskan Department, fo rthe part he | played in directing the supply and | transportation of several large task forces during the Aleutian cam- paign, was announced recently at Alaskan Department headquarters. Gegeral Whittaker was cited for “exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service as deputy commander of the Alaskan Defense Command and the -| Alaskan Department from February 2, 1943, to January 1, 1944." “General Whittakes exhibited ex- | SUNDAY... MATINEE AT 2:00 P. M. ON THE SPOT REALISM ... SPECTACLE . ..THRILLS! AND A BLAZING CLIMAX YOU'LL NEVER, NEVER FORGET! One burning brand in a reckless pa- triot's hand sets aflame the fiery circle that points the target for one of the most daring raids that ever roared out of the skies! " ANNABELLA~ JOHN SUTTON ° s LEE) 200BB 5 Q_EUUH BONDI » BLANCHE YURKA Diréered by JOHN. BRAHM 't Prodyced by ANDRE DAVEN ScreensPlay by Waldo'Salt v LATEST WORLD NEWS OWL SHOW 12:30 A. M. TONIGHT his duties included all ms fecting the Alaska Deefnse mand, which was part of the | Western Deefnse Command at that | time. | Commissioned a Sscond Lieuten- | ant of Cavalry in November, 191 he served on the Mexican bormr‘ during World War I, rising to the grade of major. He remained in| the Cavalry until 1940 when he was assigned to Fort Jackson, S. C., as | 1942, he served for several months post executive officer. Before he | as supply officer for the Fourth became deputy chief of staff of the | Army. Western Defense Command in July,| Born in Manchester, N. H., Gen- | eral Whittaker graduated from Nor- wich University in 1915 with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Civil En- gineering. Com- a OW PLAYING— "“AIR FORCE" . 5139-A | In the District Court for the Terti- tory of Alaska. First Divisign. MAGGIE ADAMS, Plaintiff, JOHN ADAMS, Defendant THE PRESIDENT OF TH ED STATES OF AMERIC THE ABOVE-NAMED DE ANT, GREETING You are hereby - | FORESTRY BOAT IN Vs, WITH EQUIPMENT UNIT- The Forest Service vessel Ranger TG | X has arrived from Edna Bay with ND. @ scow load of equipment. Otter Johnson is captain of the boat. BT LR required to ap- | ceptional executive ability and pro- | pear in the District Court for the fessional knowledge of the science of | Territory of Alaska, First Division, logistics in the supply and transpor- | ag Juneau, within thirty days after tation of several large task forces | the last publication of this summons, that occupied strategic islands in the “The excellent flow of supplies largely responshible fo rthe rapid | which powerful blows were struck at the enemy causing his defeat and withdrawal from the Aleutian area. During this period the supply, con- struction and equipping of previously established Alaskan bases, spread over thousands of miles of the Ter- ritory, were continued without in- terruption. “General Whittaker's tireless en- ergy and devotion to duty has eon- tributed a large measure to the success of the Armed Forces in Al- aska and Aleutian areas and the present strong defenses of those areas.” Western Deefnse Command and As deputy chief of staff of the Fourth Army, General Whittaker had made several trips to Alaska before he reported for duty in his preyent pesition in February, 1943 | During the period he served with the Western Deiense Command, General Whittaker coordinated all development of strong bases !romlmm,_\ i namely within thirty days after the summons is published, or within service upon you, in case this sum- served upon you personally, | and answer the complaint of the above named plaintiff on file in the said court in the above entitled | action | The said plaintiff in said action | demands the following relief: Dis- | solution of the bonds of matrimony | now existing between you and plain- |of 14,000 palaces. e And in the event you fail to ap- | CLEAN GETAWAY KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — The vice western Aleutians,” his citation said. | 4th day of August, 1944, in case this | squad automobile stopped and de- tectives dashed into the house on & and equipment to these forces was | forty days after the date of its raid A thief sped away with the police car. Blocks away the auto crashed into a pole at an intersection. One detective, searching the car for his last clean shirt, learned the thief took it with him on his get- away. e e In the seyenth century, the city Alexand is said to have had personnel and supply activities and GERALDINE'S GOT HER CAP SET FOR YOU,SNUFFY FIDDLE Oee Dee!! HERE SHE COMES, Now 1! pear and answer, the plaintiff will | Rt Ak el take judgment against you for want | . L A Stated thereof, and will apply to the court |, = 4 wfi‘l’"‘"""'}: i M“Ff‘d‘g' for the relief demanded in the com- | . 3 ORI plaint and as hereinabove stated. = | 2€8ree: WITNESS, the Honorable George | F. Alexander, judge of the said court, and the seal of said court | hereunto affixed on this 6th day of July, 1944, ROBERT E. (SEAL) " By P. D. L. McIVER, Deputy Clerk. | First publication, July 7, 1944, Last publication, August 4, 1944, 1 J. W. LEIVERS, COUGHLIN, | Clerk, J | '/L,UTV‘B/ omen’s AppaneL P SR PR " By BILLY DeBECK AW, QUIT BEATIN' YORE BEAK , HAWRY-TAWKY ! B AR . The Derby Inn DINE AND DANCE DINE AND DANCE Located at SKAGWAY SKAGWAY'S ONLY DINE AND DANCE PLACE SINCE THE GOLD RUSH!